Reader Response

May, 1988

"Praise of the Bill of Rights is proper, but we should never forget that the rights recited are fruits of the tree and not the tree itself."--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia"When conservatives like Bork treat rights as islands surrounded by a sea of government powers, they precisely reverse the view of the founders as enshrined in the Constitution, wherein government powers are limited and specified and rendered as islands surrounded by a sea of individual rights."--Step...

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